I’m still reading Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts. It’s a really amazing book, essential reading about how imperialism and colonization turned the great El Niños of the late 19th century into famines and bouts of pestilence that claimed the lives of around fifty million people.

Hopefully I will gather my thoughts together to write a little more when I’m done with the book. Until then though I’ve been putting together a list of meteorological terms that would make good band names. In no particular order:

• The Cold Tongues
• Southern Oscillation
• North Pacific Oscillation (possibly a successor project to SO?)
• The Chimu Floods
• La Niña
• The Maritime Continents
• Orology
• Jetstream

And I think a gothic death metal band could do worse than naming itself “Late Victorian Holocausts”.

August 12th, 2009 | Category: bibliophilia, music | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL